General Plastics Badge...

[wig]

Hi folks,
The manufacturer General Plastics, were their badges just WWII ?
Cheers
Wig

[Lancer 17]

G'day Wig

Seems you are having trouble with your rising suns !

Cossum only lists the following makers for WW1 :- JR Gaunt London, Tiptaft, Amor - Sydney WW1 & 2, and some unidentified makers.

The General Plastics is listed as WW2, as is Stokes & Son Melb, Arendsen Melb, Stokes Melb, KG Luke Melb, Amor Sydney, all Kings Crown. There are lots of unidentified WW2 issues as well.

He also lists collars as made by Tiptaft, Stokes & Sons, JR Gaunt & Sons, Arendsen, KG Luke and JR Gaunt & Son but does not break them up into WW1 or 2 issues.

I hope that this helps. If you need more help send me a pm with your email address.

Rgards

Phil.

[wig]

Hi there Phil,
You're a champion, thanks for that mate, much appreciated.
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm a novice when it comes to this !
I was researching my family's WW1 history, one thing lead to another, I found a Rising Sun badge very cheap here (I'm an Aussie living in Texas), unfortunately it opened a can of worms ! Now I've got the bug...so I'm trying to learn all I can about the WW1/WW2 badges and their differences.
Cheers
Wig

[badgecollector]

Hi wig
I have a feeling that the general plastics company produced badges in WW1 but will have to check.
As good as Cossum books are, there are lots of mistakes and pieces of information missing or misleading.
if Cossum says JR Gaunt London, Tiptaft, Amor - Sydney WW1 & 2, and some unidentified makers made them, he has definitely missed several including stokes who was probably the biggest gvt supplier in ww1.
BC

[Donny B.]

You might find this interesting.

http://militaria-sales.com.au/genera...ics-p-943.html

[wig]

Thanks for that BC & Donny...
I scored this badge recently, I don't know it's vintage.
Any ideas ?
Interesting though the clip on the back is soldered on.
It looks like the two lugs on the back must have come off at some stage.
Cheers
Wig

[Donny B.]

That is a rather imaginative device that someone has soldered to the back, eh! It is a nice badge but a shame about that odd adaptation.

As for its vintage....it is clearly marked K G Luke. They were WW11 manufacturers........Check back through the list of WW11 manufacturers attributed to badges pictured by Cossum, as pointed out by Lancer 17 a few posts back in this thread.

I would agree with badgecollector that the list of named badges by Cossum is by no means complete.

[wig]

Donny,
Cheers
Wig